Don’t start packing the sandwiches just yet, but planning a hike on Mars just got a little easier. Scientists have released the first „hiking maps“ of Mars, which show the planet’s topography in the same format as Earth-based hikers‘ maps. The area covered by the maps would certainly make for good, if strenuous, hiking. It is a very rugged area near the equator called Iani Chaos. Some great views would be possible from atop one of the region’s many mesas that overlook gaping canyons hundreds of metres deep.
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Mars_Express/The_first_hiking_maps_of_Mars
Hiking maps of Mars
13. Februar 2007
